Nikki Shure
@nikkishure.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 Professor of Economics and Social Policy at UCL Social Research Institute and Research Fellow at IZA interested in gender and socioeconomic inequality in access to higher education and the labo(u)r market
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UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience: Save the date to celebrate together!
The countdown has officially begun! Save the date for UCL Illuminated – a spectacular sound and light experience that will kick off our bicentennial celebrations from 11-13 February 2026.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
UCL200 to launch with a spectacular sound and light experience! 💫
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
We can’t wait to welcome students, staff, alumni and our wider community and launching a year of celebrations for our 200th birthday!
📅11-13 February 2026.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/439g5Kk
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Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social
Opinion | For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Jessica Grose’s nice piece citing our new research: For Gen Z-ers, Work Is Now More Depressing Than Unemployment www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o... @sriucl.bsky.social
I went to see the Lee Miller exhibition at @tate.bsky.social last weekend (curated by my brilliant friend Hilary 🌟) and was struck by the range of Miller’s work. It is to quote Hilary: “fearless, poetic, and surreal”.
Q&A | ‘It’s the biggest show that’s ever been done on Miller but we could have filled it eight times over’ 📸
Curator Hilary Floe discusses Tate Britain's exhibition about photographer Lee Miller.
Curator Hilary Floe discusses Tate Britain's exhibition about photographer Lee Miller.
Q&A | 'It's the biggest show that's ever been done on Miller but we could have filled it eight times over' - Museums Association
Curator Hilary Floe discusses Tate Britain's exhibition about photographer Lee Miller
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October 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I went to see the Lee Miller exhibition at @tate.bsky.social last weekend (curated by my brilliant friend Hilary 🌟) and was struck by the range of Miller’s work. It is to quote Hilary: “fearless, poetic, and surreal”.
Today marks my 10 (!!!) year anniversary at @sriucl.bsky.social and my first day as a full professor. Grateful for all the people who helped me get here, especially my amazing QSS colleagues. Here’s to the next 10!
October 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Today marks my 10 (!!!) year anniversary at @sriucl.bsky.social and my first day as a full professor. Grateful for all the people who helped me get here, especially my amazing QSS colleagues. Here’s to the next 10!
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Research by @adameczanna.bsky.social @suncicavujic.bsky.social and Anna Lovász finds that women who are the first in their family to graduate are less likely to become mothers than non-graduates or continuing-generation graduates. Covered by The Times yesterday www.thetimes.com/uk/education....
September 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Research by @adameczanna.bsky.social @suncicavujic.bsky.social and Anna Lovász finds that women who are the first in their family to graduate are less likely to become mothers than non-graduates or continuing-generation graduates. Covered by The Times yesterday www.thetimes.com/uk/education....
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🔊"We are seeing big conglomerate organisations who are providing the same kind of formulaic childcare in a number of settings"
@drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision.
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
@drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision.
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
September 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔊"We are seeing big conglomerate organisations who are providing the same kind of formulaic childcare in a number of settings"
@drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision.
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
@drantoniasimon.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social describes how the privatisation of nurseries has affected #childcare provision.
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
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Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social:
📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org
Applications open from October 13!
📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org
Applications open from October 13!
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Scholarship opportunities for studying MSc/MA Sociology (shorturl.at/RiL2P) @sriucl.bsky.social:
📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org
Applications open from October 13!
📌Master's Bursary: shorturl.at/gKkvx
📌Global Master's Scholarship: shorturl.at/sift7
📌Humanitarian Scholarship: shorturl.at/y9qsL
📌Chevening: www.chevening.org
Applications open from October 13!
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16/ TL;DR: The UK system isn’t mysterious, it just runs differently. Tailor your cover letter to the criteria, foreground your teaching, and remember: the letter is everything.
September 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
16/ TL;DR: The UK system isn’t mysterious, it just runs differently. Tailor your cover letter to the criteria, foreground your teaching, and remember: the letter is everything.
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Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research
Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
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Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This news just in: we hoped the middle- and upper-class capture of the media would lessen. It’s got worse | Carl Cullinane
Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society, says Carl Cullinane, director of research and policy ...
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Pleased to write about working class access to the media industry in @theguardian.com today. Our Elitist Britain research out today shows that almost half of columnists, commentators and top podcast hosts went to private schools. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in.
More info 👇
More info 👇
New Open Access paper published in PNAS Nexus! “Ingroup preferences, segregation, and intergroup contact in neighborhoods and civic organizations” with my co-authors Rob Franken, @dingemanwiertz.bsky.social, and Jochem Tolsma. doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thread below.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
New paper, using conjoint experiments to study ingroup preferences across multiple settings (neighborhoods, civic orgs, sports clubs) and social dimensions (age, ethnicity, education). We also link people's choices in the experiments to the real-world contexts they are embedded in.
More info 👇
More info 👇
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Very happy to be taking on this role. @sllshome.bsky.social is so important for our worldwide longitudinal family through the conference, journal and many wider activities. I look forward to helping it to continue to go from strength to strength.
We’re delighted that our Managing Director @drlisac.bsky.social has been appointed President-Elect of @sllshome.bsky.social. She will become President from the September 2026 conference. Congratulations Lisa! #SLLS2025
September 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Very happy to be taking on this role. @sllshome.bsky.social is so important for our worldwide longitudinal family through the conference, journal and many wider activities. I look forward to helping it to continue to go from strength to strength.
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🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social
We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social
We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Since we're hiring off-cycle, we're aware typical dissemination channels might be less effective... please do share with anyone you think might be interested
#EconSky
#EconSky
📢Nina Roussille and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work with us at MIT on labor economics research projects.
IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon.
Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
IMPORTANT: this vacancy is open right now, so we are particularly interested in people who could start soon.
Link to apply: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Predoctoral Researcher
MIT - Predoctoral Researcher - Cambridge MA 02139
careers.peopleclick.com
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Since we're hiring off-cycle, we're aware typical dissemination channels might be less effective... please do share with anyone you think might be interested
#EconSky
#EconSky
Come join us at QSS @sriucl.bsky.social! We have the best colleagues ♥️
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Come join us at QSS @sriucl.bsky.social! We have the best colleagues ♥️
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WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
September 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you.
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Apply by: 10 Oct
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026.
More information, including call for papers, to follow
More information, including call for papers, to follow
August 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Conference Announcement: 16th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE - www.iwaee.org) will be held on the 15th and 16th of June, 2026.
More information, including call for papers, to follow
More information, including call for papers, to follow
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Join us on September 23rd and 24th for an online (and free!) introduction to using the National Pupil Database and its linked data.
Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it.
Sign up here:
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Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it.
Sign up here:
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CEPEO ADRUK Introduction to the National Pupil Database and its linked data
Join us for this online intro to the National Pupil Database and some of the other admin datasets to which it contributes (LEO, GRADE, GUiE)
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August 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join us on September 23rd and 24th for an online (and free!) introduction to using the National Pupil Database and its linked data.
Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it.
Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...
Our experienced team will showcase some of our research using the NPD and guide you on how to apply to use it.
Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cepeo-adru...
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And on a more serious note: @snageebali.bsky.social and i have a recent paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social that shows that application portfolios become more aggressive when beliefs are more optimistic:
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July 20, 2025 at 12:42 AM
And on a more serious note: @snageebali.bsky.social and i have a recent paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social that shows that application portfolios become more aggressive when beliefs are more optimistic:
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Writing this paper with John Jerrim and Phil Parker got me started on a whole journey about gender differences in over-/underconfidence.
Cool paper with an great title.
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
Across the world, boys are much more likely to overestimate their math ability than girls.
People from high SES backgrounds do the same
www.iza.org/publications...
July 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Writing this paper with John Jerrim and Phil Parker got me started on a whole journey about gender differences in over-/underconfidence.
Love seeing great work from early career researchers in @sriucl.bsky.social 🌟
First paper of my PhD is out in RSSM!
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
Redirecting
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Love seeing great work from early career researchers in @sriucl.bsky.social 🌟
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When Danilo started his PhD, we developed this idea thinking it'd keep him busy for a year. He had full results within a few weeks. Out now and it's brilliant! Rising star.
First paper of my PhD is out in RSSM!
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
Title: Do spatial inequalities explain social disparities in mismatch in Chilean higher education?
doi.org/10.1016/j.rs...
I appreciate the huge support from my supervisors, @pengzell.bsky.social and John Jerrim. Below, I briefly summarize the paper.
Redirecting
doi.org
July 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When Danilo started his PhD, we developed this idea thinking it'd keep him busy for a year. He had full results within a few weeks. Out now and it's brilliant! Rising star.
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Our @gillwyness.bsky.social is navigating the economics of UK higher education in the @ioe.bsky.social podcast this week!
check it out below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
check it out below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
Navigating the economics of UK higher education | RFTRW: S25E01
Delving into the economic factors influencing universities today, including the implications of tuition fee policies and the structure of student loan repayments.
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 1, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Our @gillwyness.bsky.social is navigating the economics of UK higher education in the @ioe.bsky.social podcast this week!
check it out below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
check it out below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/202...
I have the best colleagues ♥️
4 Professors celebrating! Congratulations to our @nikkishure.bsky.social on becoming a Full Professor ❤️
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I have the best colleagues ♥️
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Book your place for the CEPEO Annual Lecture with Chloe Gibbs on 10th July 2025.
She will be discussing the latest evidence about investments in early childhood education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
She will be discussing the latest evidence about investments in early childhood education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
CEPEO Annual Lecture 2025: Making smart investments in early childhood education
Hear Chloe Gibbs draw together evidence from across her research portfolio to provide insights into making smart investments in early childhood education.
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June 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Book your place for the CEPEO Annual Lecture with Chloe Gibbs on 10th July 2025.
She will be discussing the latest evidence about investments in early childhood education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
She will be discussing the latest evidence about investments in early childhood education.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...